Improved cherry-stoner



chine.

NITRD STATES PATENT OFFTGR.

oHARLRs E. WRIGHT, or AUBURN, New YORK.

IMPROVED CHERRYjSTONER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,531, dated October 2, 1866.

To all whom t may concern:

Bc it known that I, CHARLES E. WRIGHT, of the city of Auburn, in Cayuga county, New York, have invented a newand Improved Mode of Pitting or Stoning Cherries; and I In order that others skilled in the art may know how to make and use my invention, I

will proceed to describe its construction and vmode ot' operation. Y

Figure l is a perspective view of the ma- A is the frame-work supporting the sev eral parts. B is the corrugated cylinder. C is the crank for turning the same. D is the curved perforated bed-plate. E is the receptacle for the pits, aswell as such portions of the juice of the cherry as may be separated from the meat in the process of pitting. F is a spring. One end rests upon the bearings of ther cylinder, there being' one at each end thereof. These springs allow the cylinder to rise up a short distance in case the machine becomes choked, which prevents the bedplate from being injured by the action of the cylinder thereon.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the machine. Fig. 3 is a cross-section, taken through Fig. 2 at G.

In Fig. 3 the relation ofthe cylinder B to the bed plate D is shown more distinctly than in other figures, and it will be noticed that the bed-plate D gradually approaches the peripheryY of cylinder, and comes nearest to it at the mouth H, where the meats pass out of the machine.

Fig. 4 is a plan ofthe bed-plate D, with the perforations 1 2 3 4 5 6, Src., through which pass thepits as they are separated from the meats.

The cherries to be pitted are placed in the space I back of the cylinder. The cylinder is then turned inthedirection to carry them under it and between it and the bedplate. As they pass through this through the pcrforations in the bcdplate, and the meats are carried forward by the action ot' the corrugated surface of the cylinder thereon, and discharged at the mouth H, as before described.

Having above described the construction and inode of operating my invention, what I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is`

The combination of the corrugated cylinder B with the curved perforated bed-plate D and springs F, when used as and for the purpose specified.

CHAS. E. WRIGHT. Witnesses F. A. WRGHT, HORACE T. Cook.

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